tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11093162.post3298071548265718293..comments2016-12-07T09:35:11.035-08:00Comments on Can it happen here?: "Handguns do not enhance our safety."janinsanfranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07548452260456734928noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11093162.post-58627007212123348842012-12-03T09:28:53.526-08:002012-12-03T09:28:53.526-08:00They also aren&#39;t a total solution to such sens...They also aren&#39;t a total solution to such senseless crimes as witnessed by the recent slaying of a father and his girlfriend by the father&#39;s son using a bow and knife. We had a very brutal slaying here in Oregon with probably a machete. Somehow we have to have better ways to deal with mental illness and that won&#39;t solve it all either. Humans are violent and the solution too often is to use violence which for most of us is beyond imagining as to why. The young man who nearly killed Gabby Giffords could have slain her and those with her with a machete if he hadn&#39;t had access to the gun. It&#39;s a deadly weapon in a young person&#39;s hands. But if we had gotten him before he got to that point and forced treatment when he didn&#39;t want it, that might&#39;ve left a lot of people still alive. I am all for limits on who can buy guns and the types but I also know it won&#39;t end these kinds of violent, seemingly (to us) senseless slayings. Our constant wars don&#39;t help as it seems when we are at war this kind of thing is more frequent which goes with what I&#39;ve said that we think we can spill the blood over there but it comes back here anyway. Our entertainment that glorifies killing doesn&#39;t help but how do you do something about that in a country that believes in freedom of speech and expression?Rain Trueaxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07994628226501093880noreply@blogger.com